Word: earths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university. In the meantime try to remember that there are other classas in the university beside your own, and try to realize that men who have been in college three years longer than you have a right to live. Of your goodness give us a little piece of the earth, and we shall be proportionately grateful." The freshmen in retaliation hoisted to the top of the highest derrick a white flag with '92 in blue...
...Santayana in his poem "Two Voices" beautifully expresses the antithesis in the bitter language of the soul that has found nothing but defeat in this world and that looks beyond earth for some sign of hope, and in the resignation of that other soul that finds in every triumph and defeat the fulfilment of its own destiny. The thought is, perhaps, somewhat too deeply hidden by the words, but we do not begrudge the effort to unravel it. Mr. Bates's poem "The Sleeper," develops an original idea. The metre chimes well with the sentiment of the tale; the lines...
...love which comes from obedience. We need not wait to know what Christ has for us to do before we show ourselves ready to obey. Many knew by experience that unquestioning obedience was right. We know what the name Christ means; we know what He was on earth and what His standard is. We can trust Him, simply because He is Jesus. We must become children again, not rebellions, not defiant, not meagre; but simple and devoted. When we hear His voice, there can never be any doubt as to what He wants of us. If we listen and obey...
...vases to the "Cypria," one of the lost epics which supplemented the Homeric poems. We know this poem through quotations which we find in various authors, and by its influence on Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark of the Greeks. This marriage was one of the episodes which particularly attracted the vase-painters...
...authorities at the Russian observatory of Pulkova in ascertaining the precise time when certain faint stars were occulted by the moon. These stars, usually invisible when in the neighborhood of the moon, on account of the brilliancy of its light, became visible by reason of the shadow of the earth falling on the moon, the light of which was thereby diminished. So that by determining the time of the occultation of these stars, whose positions are exactly known, the moon's position was ascertained more accurately than it has been heretofore. In addition to this work in co-operation with...